I don't know much at all about memcached, so the parameters I gave were based on what Dre had said was necessary.

The -m switch is definitely a good idea in this case, as would the -l switch if it does what I think it does (since I assume that otherwise it'll listen on all interfaces?)

As for -d, for a dev installation I imagine it would be useful to see console messages easily, though I don't even know if memcached outputs any, heh. (I'd personally still do it in screen just for the ability to Ctrl-C it directly rather than having to kill via the command line, but that's totally a me-thing and I know that not everyone will want that.)

Thanks for the tips!